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F. E. MORRIS. COOKING APPAHATUS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19. |9211,401,945, Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

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FRANK ELLIS MoRItIS, on PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

i I cooxING APPARATUS.

Application lled January 19, 1921.

To llwltom t may concern Be it knownthat I, FRANK ELLIS MORRIS, acitizen ofthe United the city of Philadelphia, in vthe county ofPhiladelphia and -State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Cooking Apparatus, whereof the following is a.

specication, reference belng had to the accompanying drawings.

Iy invention relates generally to cooking apparatus of the type whereinlhot liquor 1s employed for cooking, and more speciib cally to apparatusespecially useful in cook- 'ing or frying pastries, 15

such for example, as oughnuts, crullers and the like.

The object of my invention is to effect positive progression of thearticles being cooked through the apparatus to the exclusion of anypossibility of their becoming distorted or-deformed. Such progression Iaccomplish by means of jetsof the cooking liquor directed at aninclination upon the articles afloat inthe retaining receptacle.Moreover, I prefer to constantly draw the supply for the spray systemfrom the discharge end of the retaining receptacle, so as to eiiectmovement of the liquor in a direction which will assist progression ofthe articles as above noted.

Other objects andadvantages of my in vention will become apparent fromthe detailed description which :follows:

In the drawings, Figure I is a plan view of `a cooking apparatusconveniently embodying my invention; and

Fig. II is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same.

The organization as herein shown comprises a comparatively long, shallowrectangular trough or receptacle l which serves as a container for thecooking liquor conventionally represented in Fig. II, and is supportedupon a suitable frame 2. The

liquor in the receptacle is maintained at an appropriate cookingtemperature by means of `one or more gas burners such'as shown at 3 inFig. II. In order to aiord a series of separate channels for guiding theprogression of the doughnuts individually while afloat in the cookingliquor, the tank is subdivided by means of a number .of equally spaced,longitudinally extending partitions 4-4.

I The doughnuts may be introduce/d in any approved manner into the guidechannels Specification of'Lettvers-Patent.

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Patented Dec. 27, 1921. serial No. 438,322.

in one end of the receptacle and, after being progressed slowly throughthe latte-r (to permit lapse of the proper cooking period) may beejected from the opposite end in a manner which will be presentlysuggested. One way in which introduction may be effectedis by means of arow of transversely arranged forming or cutting devices diagrammaticallyrepresented at 5 5 in the drawings, one of such devices being suspendedabove the center of each of the guide channels at the right-hand orcharging extremity of the receptacle. In pracf tice, these devices aresimultaneously operated so as to drop, at each actuation, a transverserow of doughnuts linto the receptacle. Progression of the floatingdoughnuts through the severalv guide cha-nnels, is brought about byimpingement of angularly directed spray jets of cooking liquor issuingfrom. a series of laterally extending perforated pipes 6-6, which aredisposed at intervals lengthwise of the receptacle, and rest inappropriate retaining notches 7 in the. top edges of its side walls.These Spray pipes are connected to a longitudinally extending manifold 8which communicates, by means of a branch 9, with a pump 10. The latterdraws from a pipe ll connected to a manifold 12 which extendstransversely beneath the left-hand or discharge end of the receptacle,and communicates with the interior of the same through a number ofdistributed outlets 13-13. The pump 10 may be actuated by any suitablepower means to circulate the liquor through This means which I will termfor convenience, an ejector, comprises a foraminated plate or screenwhich extends the full width of the receptacle and normally occupies ahorizontal position below the surface of the cooking liquor so that thedoughnuts may meanssuch as Shown at 15 in the drawings.

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float over the top of the same.V is adapted to Vbe periodically elevatedand .tilted about a pivot 16 tothe position shown in dot and dash linesin Fig. II, so as to discharge, at each actuation, a rovv` of doughnutsto a delivery chute represented at 17. Any appropriate mechanism may beinstalled for actuating the ejector as just described, but since suchmechanism forms no part of thek present invention, illustration thereoihas been purposely omitted.

Sprayingof the doughnuts with the hot liquor in the course of theirpassage through the apparatus obviously causes the cooking of theirexposed sides simultaneously with the opposite sides which are submergedin the .bodyfof the liquor .in the receptacle. This not onlyobviatesturning as ordinarily practised in cooking doughnuts first on one sideand then on the other, but also proportionately shortens the cookingperiod.

.Having thus Ydescribed my invention, I claim: l

1. An apparatus of the characterV described 'comprising a trough orreceptacle containing hot li uor into which the articles to be cookedare introduced; in combination with a spray system by which cookingliquor is directed in the form of jets to impin e at an inclination uponthe articles for te purpose of progressing them While afloat in theYreceptacle. Y

2. An apparatus of the character de- The' ejectorl scribed Vcomprising acomparatively long trough or receptacle containing hot liquor into whichthe articles to be cooked are introduced at one end; in combination witha spray system including a lseries of perforated pipesdisposedtransversely across the top of the receptacle at intervalslengthwise of the same, the jets issuing from the perorations in saidpipes being directed to impinge at an angle upon the articles for thepurpose of progressing them while afloat in the receptacle.

3. An apparatus of the character described comprising a trough orreceptacle containing hot liquor into which the articles to be cookedare introduced; in combination with a spray system by which cookingliquor is directed 1n the Jform of jets to impinge at an inclinationupon the articles for progressing them While afloat in the receptacle,the supply for the spray system being continuously drawn from thedischarge end of the receptacle so as to induce movement of the liquorin a direction tending to assist progression of the articles through theapparatus.

Iny testimony whereof, I have hereunto signedmy name at Albion,Michigan, this 3rd day of January, 1921.

y FRANK ELLIS. MORRIS. Witnesses:

ERA COLEMAN, Y Y CHAs. L. VANCERDER.

